The week of October 22-26 2007
witnessed the largest, most successful campus demonstrations by students
not associated with the anti-American left in the history of campus
protests. 114 college and university campuses participated in “Islamo-Fascism
Awareness Week, which highlighted the threat from the Islamic jihad,
and the
oppression of Muslim women.
It featured a petition against the violent oppression of women in Islam
and circulation of a pamphlet on that issue; an advertising campaign
in campus newspapers; sit-ins at women’s studies departments to protest
the lack of concern for this oppression on the part of feminists; showings
of documentaries such as “Obsession” and “Suicide Killers”;
panel discussions and talks with speakers such as former Senator Rick
Santorum, Ann Coulter, Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, Michael
Medved, Dennis Prager and Daniel Pipes.

By the end of the Week there were some 644,000 references to the event
on the internet. There was coverage – often multiple news reports
and opinion columns -- in all the student papers on campuses where events
took place and broad coverage in the mainstream media.